Hi,
I am going on a trip to Florida in August and would like to know what is the best way to get low cost calls and GPRS access. I plan to either use Opera as my main browser or use the EXEC as a modem for my laptop.
I have looked at some options but was not sure whether they will work.
1. Buy a T Mobile Sidekick sim card from a US ebay seller and get GPRS for $1 a day
2. But a T Mobile SPeal Easy Sim card from a us ebay seller and get unlimited GPRS (wap only?)
But will it work with my exec and are there other ways?
If you're currently with a data package from O2, UK, you may find there is no additional cost for using GPRS abroad, i.e., no roaming fee for data connection. This was at least the case when I was travelling in China using Exec with the O2 SIM card. Of course the roaming price for voice calls is however unacceptably high.
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I have never been able to access gprs on my O2 payg sim. The sim comes with free sms plus free gprs pages and free wap. Am I missing something, is the sim automatically gprs ready or do I need to get it activated? Others on the forum seem to have managed it but I just cant and I have to be content with standard GSM connection. Any help greatly appreciated, the sim is the one that gives 300 minutes wap plus 300 sms messages free for a minimum tenner a month topup. Thanks.
Is anybody using O2 payg and also using gprs on xda, if so, did you have to get your sim activated to do so. I have found it impossible although others claim to be able to do it.
o2 payg gprs
mate, i take it you have an o2 online chip where you get 300 txt and 300 wap minutes.
now to fully exploit the xda2's data capabilities, you need not the o2 wap gprs service but o2 mobile web which is o2's full internet, web and email (pretty much unrestricted) service and only available to o2 contract customers.
i do know earlier o2 online (genie) chips had unrestricted gprs in some shape or form and some folks were even able to exploit full web access on these but these were provided in error chips.
newer online chips though and even regular payg for that matter can only do wap gprs or wap gsm but nothing more.
i know its a hassle but its got something to do with the different access point names and server IP addresses attached to payg gprs and contract sims.
Gbolly, thanks for that, I can acces everything I need over wap using internet explorer, my problem is I cannot get gprs to work even though the sim details say that I have free gprs pages in the bundle. Is the sim always gprs capable or do I have to ask for it to be enabled. If I put the sim in a smartphone spv it shows the "G" constantly so I am assuming it is capable.
Call Customer Services and they will provision GPRS onto the account. The Genie sims are not provisioned out of the packet. I have to call up Online Customer Services multiple times a day for customers who have bought the sims online and cannot access GPRS. In the shop we simply call up Online and provision the sims in large batches upon arrival to the store. Makes it much easier.
Set your APN to payandgo.o2.co.uk
Username to payandgo
Password is password
Once your SIM has been provisioned you will have access to the GPRS side of things.
Re: o2 payg gprs
gbolly said:
o2 mobile web which is o2's full internet, web and email (pretty much unrestricted) service and only available to o2 contract customers.
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News to me? Im a monthly contract customer, and as far as i know you pay for the data as you use it. You can bundle about 5MB of data, but you pay about £12 for it a month.
If theres some free access im missing out on, please enlighten me!
gprs only works with wap on the xda and mms
wap works with both except not mms
o2 online can only do wap over gprs and not datagprs (mobile web)
if you want to surf using gprs then you should move onto an contract plan.
i phoned up customer services to ask them about dataplans they say they cannot do them for PAYG customers.
o2online sims you buy now days are already set up for gprs use straight from the packet after topping up £10 (wait 24 hours) then your free texts/wap minutes come into play
for mms you will have to phone them up and ask for it to be enabled.
ive been on o2 genie/online for about 4 years now
Is there any way of knowing in which countries GPRS will work in? I've got a T-Mobile MDA Vario and on one or two occasions I wasn't able to get GPRS up and running in order to browse the net. Just wondering if it doesn't work in some countries or if that was a coincidence.
Isn't there a list of countries/companies which T-Mobile have roaming agreements with on the T-Mobile website ?
Yes but this only indicates where you can use the phone. My understanding is that this does not necessarily include GPRS/data availability or access.
Yes, just because you can roam does not mean you can use GPRS. I do not think that info is on www.gsm.org either. Drop an email to T-Mobile customer service if it isn't on their site.
Must admit I always buy a local SIM for data usage now that many operators have pre-paid GPRS.
GPRS abroad..
T-Mobile do have partners abroad - for the preferred network to use and cheaper calls - but that doesn't mean you will get any of your GPRS allowance wheilst roaming.
I have the Web'n'walk tariff , but my mobile bill was still over £160 when I got back after a week in Eire.
I think the GPRS / MMS data usage was at their standard roaming tariff.,, whatever that is.
Charlie Grillo
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I couldn't use GPRS with O2 in UK (where T-Mobile wasn't available). I had no trouble with multiple carriers in Barcelona and always found T-Mobile itself in Frankfurt and Bonn. GRPS works in Paris (didn't note the carrier) and never worked with any of NINE partners in Taiwan last year.
prestonmcafee, thanks for the examples. Your visit to the UK must have been some time ago, T-Mobile exists here now, I think they initially came in the market a couple of years back when they acquired what used to be one to one, or whatever they were called.
Yesterday!
Sorry I wasn't clear, what I meant was that I couldn't get GPRS in the UK in the places where T-Mobile wasn't available; T-Mobile is usually available but not always. Victoria Station and Heathrow have places where T-Mobile's signal is so low that the automatic connection on a US T-Mobile phone connects to O2, and in this case, GPRS will fail.
Sometimes, but not usually, a manual connection would turn up T-mobile even when the phone had connected to O2.
I just returned from 5 weeks in the UK yesterday.
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I'm heading down to Florida (from UK) in early February and was wondering if I will be able to use my Vario II when I'm there?
I have a T-Mobile contract with Web n'Walk (unlimited Net access).
I would like to use my Vario to access the Internet.
Is my Web n'Walk transferable? Or will I pay a fortune to access the Net when I'm abroad?
Also, any advice about using my phone while I'm there would be appreciated (e.g. should I purchase a SIM for the duration of my holiday?).
If you are roaming then you should be able to use if no problem, though I recommend you unlock it and pick up a sim while you are there as it will be much cheaper.
Forget the damned phone and go see Florida properly!!!!
Mike
I am going to Florida on business (and pleasure).
Ask your T-mobile about net access (roaming) in Florida. If that's short trip ,use wi-fi spots ,like a Starbucks .
I was there last November MDA works great, GSM and GPRS (no G3)
don't forget to disable auto download application's (RSS, whether etc)
I the most of the hotels WIFI is for free.
Starbuck has also WIFI but you have to pay for it
even if you use your T-mobile hotspot account.
it's cheaper to use GPRS for short connections..
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Is my Web n'Walk transferable? Or will I pay a fortune to access the Net when I'm abroad?
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you WILL pay for using GPRS data connections abroad. W'n'W unlimited access works only in UK.
The using hot spots is cheaper anyway. The most of Starbucks has free hot spots, some not. The most has contract with T-mobile. As far I remember , the Barnes and Noble bookstor's has free hot spots too.
I've been on Florida a year ago. Always hoked up in to the free Starbucks hot spots.
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Help!!
I'm due to fly out to Australia for a 3 week holiday on Saturday.
I had planned to purchase a PAYG (or prepaid as they call it) SIM and use it in my unlocked
Vario II to keep in touch with family/friends via email and also update an
online travel blog. Unfortunately I have just discovered that none of the
Australian cell networks appear to offer full internet access on PAYG.
Anyone know if this is the case, and more importantly anyone know of a way I can get full internet access whilst out there without having to pay t-mobile £7.50 per MB for roaming data (i only pay that a month for unlimited access at home!)
Hi
Im not sure about the prepay card you are speaking of..... but I just move to Sydney and spent the first month trying to sort some mobile internet out.
In the end I got an uncle to set up a vodafone account for me then I used that (they wouldnt give me an account unless I could provide 3 months Australian payslips and about 50 forms of ID)
So good luck!
Try to organise it before you leave or you may find it really difficult.
Sorry that probably doesnt help you much...
There must be someone who does prepay 3g/gprs over here!
mobile internet in australia sucks, i work for Telstra and even on my staff plan its damn expensive.
id love to get unlimited mobile net on my jam, ive often said id gladly trade my phone line for a dataline on my mobile anyday of the week.
As far as i know, none of the australian service providers have internet access on prepaid sims. I guess you are out of luck.
So I've got Touch-IT 4.5 on my phone (UK Version with O2) and was just wondering, will this phone work in the USA with this firmware?
Also, I have unlimited internet on my phone but not abroad. How can I turn it all off so when i'm in America I don't get charged £6/mb ?
you can use modaco nodata to disable the internet connections of your phone. its a really small, but useful application.
@Evostance
yes your phone will work in USA but your O2 goes on roaming cost a lot of $$$ I recommend to buy a AT & T or Virgin prepaid card when you there so your Work Colleges can call you on this #, for the internet most of the Hotels if you stay in an Hotel have complementary I-net with Wlan and when you have Skype with a money account you can call via wlan + Skype for less than a cent to GB
if you stay in a Hotel from Hilton group I recommend to get a Hilton honors card asap it’s for free there points program are one of the best in the World.